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by DenisM 3423 days ago
There's an interesting workaround for the Net Neutrality problem that Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, et al can implement.

They could create a industry standard for testing mobile internet speed against CDNs of all major video providers, and then use their respective video services to ingrain it into customers minds that they have to use this when shopping for a mobile internet provider.

This might just create enough pressure on the cell providers for one of them to break the ranks and start treating all such traffic with respect.

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That's pretty much what Netflix does with fast.com, only just for themselves. Opening that up so that other providers could use the fast.com name with their own backends is an interesting idea.